Characters / Crossing Souls

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Main Characters

Chris Williams

• Batter Up!: Chris fights with a baseball bat. He is so good at it, he can smash robots, and even deflect Energy Ball projectiles backwards, with no damage to the bat!
• Heroic Sacrifice: Chris does this in the end, letting the Duat claim his life so that he could confront Seth.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: In the end, Chris' soul turns out to be so pure as to completely overpower Seth, and perhaps even defeat him for the rest of time. Don't ask how this squares with how they took the Duat off the body of a dead man in the first place, or the way you get to smash piles of skulls while on the cemetery, like they were any other environmental obstacle.

Matthew 'Matt' Bauer

• Nerd Glasses: Matt wears enormous glasses with light blue frames.

Charlene 'Charlie' Baker

• Damsel in Distress: Charlie gets captured in Major Oh Rus' compound, and is tied to a machine that'll kill her right before the actual battle with Oh Rus.
• Final Girl: Charlie is literally the only playable character to survive the events of the main game, with her telling the epilogue at the end, before choosing to die herself so that she can be with them.
• Flash Step: Charlie can dash like this.
• Girlish Pigtails: Charlie has these.
• Improbable Weapon User: Charlie Baker uses a skipping rope as a whip.
• The Smurfette Principle: Charlie is the only female playable character.
• Spin Attack: The whipping attacks with Charlie's skipping rope.

Big Joe

• Agonizing Stomach Wound: Happens when Heartless shoots him.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Big Joe choosing to push on ahead rather than waiting and trying to rest and heal after his bullet wound could be seen as this. It's even possible he would have survived otherwise, but Chris and Matt would not have gotten to Oh Rus' base in time to save the world.

Kevin Williams

• Joke Character: Kevin's only "abilities" are to fart, pick boogers and blow bubble gum. His uselessness foreshadows his early death.

Antagonists/Bosses

Major Oh Rus

• A God Am I: Major Oh Rus falls heavily into this, right before he actually uses the Duat, to, in his mind, become a god. Too bad it wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

Major Oh Rus: Pay close attention! You're going to witness the birth of a new God: Oh Rus! Let your death serve as an example for those who dare oppose my reign! HAHAHA!'''

• Beard of Evil: Major Oh Rus has a long grey one.
• Big Bad: Major Oh Rus, who wants to Take Over the World by getting armies of ghosts with the power of the Duat.
• Cape Swish: Major Oh Rus does this with his red cape.
• Glowing Eyes: Major Oh Rus' eyes are glowing with lilac from the first scene we see him in.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Major Oh Rus has a long scar running down his face and across his eye.
• Neck Snap: Major Oh Rus does this to Matt, Darth Vader-style.
• One-Winged Angel: After the kids defeat him as a human, Major Oh Rus decides it's time for him to become a god. Said "god" is a large red beast, too dumb not to run into the very crystals keeping it alive.
• Spread Shot: Major Oh Rus can fire a spread of three energy shots from his hand.

Dr. Spielgman

• Affably Evil: Dr. Spielgman is always polite and he really believes his plan is going to do good by letting dead scientists from the past work with the living ones. It's too bad he's fine with hundreds of people dying to feed the Duat to accomplish this. Moreover, Major only cares about this plan to the extent it lets him become a god, while Seth doesn't care about either of them, and just wants to "render his judgement" on all of humanity.
• Herr Doktor: Spielgman, Major Oh Rus' scientist who figured out how to open the portal between the world of living and the dead.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: Dr. Spielgman wants to create an essential utopia by using the Duat to summon the ghosts of dead scientists so that they can work together with the living ones. As such, he considers any casualties Major and his forces cause to be "the cost of progress", since "we have all lost something on the path to enlightenment". As such, he also lets Major Oh Rus feed the Duat with the lives of hundreds of people, and lies to Matt about it. Sadly, Seth was never planning to let him do that anyway, and Oh Rus might have done away with him after becoming a "god" just like how he got rid of all other previous underlings once they stopped being useful.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Dr. Spielgman clearly believes he can create an essential utopia by using the Duat to summon the ghosts of dead scientists so that they can work together with the living ones. As such, he considers any casualties Major and his forces cause to be "the cost of progress", since "we have all lost something on the path to enlightenment". This goes as far as letting Major Oh Rus feed the Duat with the lives of hundreds of people, even though it's not clear if this is needed for anything but Major's hope of becoming a god.

Heartless

• Fate Worse than Death: Heartless essentially becomes a Brain in a Jar, rigged to a giant killing complex.
• Unwilling Roboticisation: This happens to Heartless, with him practically becoming a Brain in a Jar that controls tons of rockets and such. His heart is literally separate from the rest of the body, and his only weak point.

Carl the Bus Driver

• Enemy Summoner: Carl the Bus Driver is a boss that simply summons members of his ghost militia (which includes red spiders) to back him up.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Carl the Bus Driver. At no point does anyone say his last name, or just call him Carl.
• Evil Laugh: Carl The Bus Driver has one.
• Puzzle Boss: Carl the Bus Driver cannot be attacked directly. Instead, Kevin must follow the sequence of presses that appears on the platforms before his throne in the same order. Doing it correctly will literally shock him.

Quincy Queen

• Cool Shades: Quincy Queen wears these.
• Eye Glasses: Quincy Queen's firecracker throwers wear these.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Quincy Queen is basically just Prince as a street thug.
• Smug Snake: Quincy Queen, who looks down on all of his friends and genuinely doesn't understand why the protagonists don't want to hang out with him and the Purple Skulls instead.
• Spread Shot: Quincy Queen fires a spread of three notes from his staff.

Randal

• Dirty Coward: Randal goes from openly contemplating taking "credit" in front of Quincy Queen for the dead body found on the lake, to swearing he did nothing when Kevin overhears them. Though, he does charge out in front of the group to protect Quincy Queen when they come to recover Matt's machine from him. Big Joe still brushes him aside in one move.
• Trash Landing: Randall, Quincy Queen's ineffective flunky, is thrown there by Big Joe after his useless slaps annoy him too much.